Amazon.com description: Product Description: China's new managers find themselves challenged as never before: this book discusses their successes and failures. The editors have assembled contributions from more than a dozen specialists in Chinese management practice, to review the nature of the new enterprise culture and to analyze: the role of politics and culture; similarities in practice between Chinese and Western approaches; the evolution of township enterprises; and the organization of production and research. The perspectives offered are the result of the latest research in China by experts who in many cases have been associated with China throughout the entire period of reform. Together they represent a comprehensive picture of the current state of the Chinese reform process as it affects business and management. This book should be of interest to students of management and to business practitioners contemplating practical involvement in China.